I found an Old Sony Laptop laying around and thought I would try to get something to work on it. It is a 32bit machine.
I have got suse tumbleweed running .
Got wireless working.
Now looking to get video drivers working. I had to use nomodeset just to get graphics to display.
What do I need to do to get drivers loaded and working.
Here is my inxi result:
`System:
Host: localhost.localdomain Kernel: 6.13.3-1-pae arch: i686 bits: 32
compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1 clocksource: hpet
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.48 wm: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0
with: xfce4-panel tools: xfce4-screensaver vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0
Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250219
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Sony product: VGN-FS740 v: C300N685
serial: 28199433-3016854 Chassis: Reserved type: 10 v: Reserved
serial: Reserved
Mobo: N/A model: N/A serial: N/A
uuid: c038ce7b-d62d-da11-81d8-00014ac2372c BIOS: Phoenix v: R0080J1
date: 07/10/2005
CPU:
Info: single core model: Intel Pentium M bits: 32 arch: M Dothan rev: 8
cache: L1: 32 KiB L2: 2 MiB note: check
Speed (MHz): 800 min/max: 800/1733 volts: 1.4 V ext-clock: 133 MHz core:
1: 800 bogomips: 3458
Flags: nx pae sse sse2
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics vendor: Sony
driver: N/A arch: Gen-3 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:2592 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 compositor: xfwm4 v: 4.20.0
driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: vesa alternate: fbdev,intel
gpu: N/A display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x800 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo>
Monitor-1: Unknown-1 mapped: None-1 res: mode: 1280x800 hz: 60
scale: 100% (1) size: N/A modes: 1280x800
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 24.3.4 glx-v: 1.4 es-v: 3.2
direct-render: yes renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7 128 bits)
device-ID: ffffffff:ffffffff
Info: Tools: api: glxinfo de: xfce4-display-settings x11: xprop,xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW High Definition Audio vendor: Sony
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:2668
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.13.3-1-pae status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.3.82 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Network:
Device-1: Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network driver: ipw2200
v: 1.2.2kdmprq bus-ID: 06:04.0 chip-ID: 8086:4220 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp6s4 state: up mac: 00:13:ce:44:30:89
Device-2: Intel 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE Ethernet Mobile vendor: Sony
driver: e100 v: kernel port: 2000 bus-ID: 06:08.0 chip-ID: 8086:1068
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp6s8 state: down mac: 00:01:4a:c2:37:2c
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 149.05 GiB used: 4.52 GiB (3.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: HM160HC size: 149.05 GiB
speed: <unknown> tech: N/A serial: S12TJ1LB732057 fw-rev: 0-10 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 145.52 GiB used: 4.52 GiB (3.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
Src: lm-sensors+/sys Message: No sensor data found using /sys/class/hwmon
or lm-sensors.
Info:
Memory: total: 1.25 GiB available: 1.2 GiB used: 1018.8 MiB (82.7%)
igpu: 128 KiB
Processes: 162 Power: uptime: 0h 39m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
Packages: pm: rpm pkgs: N/A note: see --rpm Compilers: N/A
Shell: Bash (su) v: 5.2.37 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.37
localhost:/home/demo #
`
Thanks for any help